Some programmers like free dinners, and enjoy sleeping til noon and working til midnight, and don't mind the 12 hours because their best friends are at work.
Other programmers want to work 9-5 to drop kids off in the morning and get home to them at dinner.
Many programmers go through each of those stages in their carreers.
It's not an either/or question. Just make a workplace that accomodates both groups and keeps both happy.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - Eric Schmidt
So I guess he wishes that subversive who published Common Sense should have been caught right away before leading to the overthrow of that government occupation of the new world?
If you have enough memory, and suspend to ram (or both ram and disk) instead of powreing off each day, a SSD doesn't matter much.
All modern OS's are excellent at using "unused" memory to cache frequently accessed disk pages; and it's exactly as fast to read a cached page of a SSD as a cached page from a spinning disk.
If they *do* give the password, it's an automatic disqualification; because the first rule of network security should be to not give up passwords that easily.
And if you object that it might be a fake password, or a throwaway facebook account - I'd point out that the ability to communicate "hell no, I'm not giving up a password that easily" is also an important skill.
Considering the US actually did sabotage enemies using software trojans... even resulting in "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.'"... it's not surprising people/governments are wary of it.
Seems to me all critical infrastructure should be based on Open systems -- both Open Source software and firmware, as well as Open hardware designs; so people can have the best chance possible at reviewing and verifying any critical infrastructure components.
Simply banning stuff from Chinese companies seems silly, though; since for every US company that has a foreign office and/or foreign employees, it's probable that their products have back doors too, from every intel agency in every one of those countries. Heck, I'd go so far as to speculate that most Microsoft security bugs might be such intentional back doors -- after all, if they don't it seems those intel agencies aren't really doing their jobs.
CEOs have a lot of experience at driving companies in the ground and asking for bailouts.
And unfortunately innovative bail-out strategies are more important skill for US business than running a company that actually invents cool stuff.
The detroit automaker bailouts proved that. Rather than let them fail so the dozen small US automakers with near-production-ready electric cars and motorcycles could compete (and buy the factories and hire the talent they need in the big-3-bankruptcy sales), the government keeps bailing out the "too-big-to-fail" automakers who proved they can't invent a decent car if their very existance depends on it.
Good thing (for them) that it doesn't. Bailouts are a far easier way to get big bonuses than doing actual good work.
C-like-C++ kinda combines the worst of both worlds.
At that point, I think you'd be better off using straight C (which I like a lot and think is the best tool for most jobs), or full C++ (which bugs me, but I admit I like the STL better than C collections).
But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." Bill Shockley invented the transistor, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce invented the integrated circuit, Ted Hof invented the microprocessor. Of course others claimed to have done those same three things, but the goal was always invention. Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
I hope Google bans themselves (both their search engine and YouTube) from taking credit card payments, because they are by far the biggest source of links to illegal material (in many countries) -- far surpassing the Pirate Bay.
I wonder what Linux admins say now, since they now dominate the data centre?
Hasn't Linux + Unix + BSD *always* dominated devices directly attached to the internet?
IIRC when I started using it, the internet was mostly Sun and Dec Ultrix systems. I don't even think Windows spoke TCP at the time.
As it grew you started getting big websites like Yahoo (BSD) and Altavista (Ultrix).
Sure a lot of clients that indirectly communicated with the internet used Windows --- but often they were behind some firewall/router/nat device, often running some Linux or embedded Unix variant.
Do not use usernames in email addresses,,,, Security... half the information they need.
I'd much rather the email system leaked my username (which is mostly harmless) than my real name (that can be useful for identity theft, stalkers, etc).
February 2011, Nokia has had a strategic partnership with Microsoft, as part of which all Nokia smartphones will incorporate Microsoft's Windows Phone.
(from wikipedia)
Perhaps they see more potential in stealing people's credit card information than in Windows 8 phones.
Slashdot Mirror
whitelists
Because it wouldn't scale.
Isn't that basically what the signed apt-get repositories are?
By accepting a signing key, you're signing up for their whitelist.
And if they did fall up, wouldn't that contradict the idea that gravity is indistinguishable from being stuck inside an accelerating elevator?
Some programmers like free dinners, and enjoy sleeping til noon and working til midnight, and don't mind the 12 hours because their best friends are at work.
Other programmers want to work 9-5 to drop kids off in the morning and get home to them at dinner.
Many programmers go through each of those stages in their carreers.
It's not an either/or question. Just make a workplace that accomodates both groups and keeps both happy.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - Eric Schmidt
So I guess he wishes that subversive who published Common Sense should have been caught right away before leading to the overthrow of that government occupation of the new world?
definitely good news.
How can we thank them in a way they'd notice?
I'm very happy they did it - but hope they don't just undo it again.
ROTFL.
I distinctly remember hopefully and naively thinking that Windows was getting a native X server when they first announced Direct X.
Microsoft just re-names it; and everyone'll be using DirectY-2014 or Vista Display API or Direct-ME.
You can name planets as you like.
Indeed.
I'm hoping Uwingu issues a rebuttal saying that the IAU's names are "illegitimate" and not officially recognized by Uwingu.
SSD
If you have enough memory, and suspend to ram (or both ram and disk) instead of powreing off each day, a SSD doesn't matter much.
All modern OS's are excellent at using "unused" memory to cache frequently accessed disk pages; and it's exactly as fast to read a cached page of a SSD as a cached page from a spinning disk.
If they *do* give the password, it's an automatic disqualification; because the first rule of network security should be to not give up passwords that easily.
And if you object that it might be a fake password, or a throwaway facebook account - I'd point out that the ability to communicate "hell no, I'm not giving up a password that easily" is also an important skill.
Seems to me all critical infrastructure should be based on Open systems -- both Open Source software and firmware, as well as Open hardware designs; so people can have the best chance possible at reviewing and verifying any critical infrastructure components.
Simply banning stuff from Chinese companies seems silly, though; since for every US company that has a foreign office and/or foreign employees, it's probable that their products have back doors too, from every intel agency in every one of those countries. Heck, I'd go so far as to speculate that most Microsoft security bugs might be such intentional back doors -- after all, if they don't it seems those intel agencies aren't really doing their jobs.
CEOs have a lot of experience at driving companies in the ground and asking for bailouts.
And unfortunately innovative bail-out strategies are more important skill for US business than running a company that actually invents cool stuff.
The detroit automaker bailouts proved that. Rather than let them fail so the dozen small US automakers with near-production-ready electric cars and motorcycles could compete (and buy the factories and hire the talent they need in the big-3-bankruptcy sales), the government keeps bailing out the "too-big-to-fail" automakers who proved they can't invent a decent car if their very existance depends on it.
Good thing (for them) that it doesn't. Bailouts are a far easier way to get big bonuses than doing actual good work.
Perhaps he was fired because the DRM wasn't strong enough and some hacker proved it was technologically capable of running off-line.
They just explain on their resume how they performed a cost-benefit analysis and that a bankrupcy was the most strategically advantageous plan.
Will open plenty of doors on Wall Street, Investment Banking, etc. for them.
C-like-C++ kinda combines the worst of both worlds.
At that point, I think you'd be better off using straight C (which I like a lot and think is the best tool for most jobs), or full C++ (which bugs me, but I admit I like the STL better than C collections).
Which is why I hit the "like" button for EVERYTHING!!!!!
I wrote a browser plugin to randomly search google and randomly click on things when my computer's idle.
Gives both plausible deniability, as well as burying actual behaviour in the noise.
If there's interest, I should probably clean it up and publish it.
But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." Bill Shockley invented the transistor, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce invented the integrated circuit, Ted Hof invented the microprocessor. Of course others claimed to have done those same three things, but the goal was always invention. Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
Perhaps the airports should just sell the videos from those machines to subsidize air travel.
I hope Google bans themselves (both their search engine and YouTube) from taking credit card payments, because they are by far the biggest source of links to illegal material (in many countries) -- far surpassing the Pirate Bay.
Seems fraternities could fund their parties by selling the pictures.
I wonder what Linux admins say now, since they now dominate the data centre?
Hasn't Linux + Unix + BSD *always* dominated devices directly attached to the internet? IIRC when I started using it, the internet was mostly Sun and Dec Ultrix systems. I don't even think Windows spoke TCP at the time. As it grew you started getting big websites like Yahoo (BSD) and Altavista (Ultrix). Sure a lot of clients that indirectly communicated with the internet used Windows --- but often they were behind some firewall/router/nat device, often running some Linux or embedded Unix variant.
Do not use usernames in email addresses ,,,, Security ... half the information they need.
I'd much rather the email system leaked my username (which is mostly harmless) than my real name (that can be useful for identity theft, stalkers, etc).
"Subtractive 3D printer" is a better term, though.
CNC == Computer Numerical Control
CNC would be a better acronym for a calculator.
February 2011, Nokia has had a strategic partnership with Microsoft, as part of which all Nokia smartphones will incorporate Microsoft's Windows Phone.
(from wikipedia) Perhaps they see more potential in stealing people's credit card information than in Windows 8 phones.
The nearest Apple Retail Store is 90 miles away in Mishawaka.
And that's why you can buy Apple products in Walmart and Target too. Who's case are you making here?